The teams keep rolling out their new cars and the F1 drivers are coming up with their 2008 helmet design. Here they are:

Raikkonen, Massa

Hamilton, Kovalainen

Heidfeld, Kubica

Alonso, Piquet

Rosberg, Nakajima

Webber, Coulthard

Glock, Trulli

Barrichello, Button

Bourdais, Vettel

Sutil, Fisichella

Sato, Davidson

Fernando Alonso seems to be getting away from McLaren days and returning to Renault even with his helmet design. Jarno Trulli reduced the shiny silver surface with more red colour over it. Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica keep the designs very close to their 2007 styles.

Kimi Raikkonen’s new 2008 helmet (click here) is very similar to his 2007 one, but the white front has been replaced with some sort of “tribal” drawing. Anyone knows what it means ?

Lewis Hamilton keeps his yellow helmet pretty much unchanged. Heikki Kovalainen had to make changes to accomodate new sponsors the result is Alonso 2007 like helmet. Bourdais keeps his Champ Car yellow and blue with the addition of Red Bull brand.

Both Honda and Red Bull drivers keep the same designs as in 2007. Sutil’s helmet does not look too different from his 2007 one as well. Fisichella is another guy sticking with his traditional colours.

Please check back for updates to this post with more on 2008 F1 driver helmets. It happened before that drivers used different design for the winter testing and came up with brand new one when the season started, so these may not yet be the definite 2008 helmets.

If you come across good pictures of new 2008 F1 driver helmets that are not yet displayed here, let me know. I will add them here !

To see what the drivers were wearing in 2007, check here

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Another look back to the history, helmets of race drivers in 2005. There are few drivers that only participated in 1 race - Wurz, de la Rosa (standing in for injured Montoya), Davidson (standing in for sick Sato), Zonta (standing in for crash shaken Ralf Schumacher). Davidson’s only race lasted all 2 laps (engine). Zonta’s was even better, he only managed the warm up lap before parking the car in the garage at the Indy farce GP… Here are the helmets.

Renault (Alonso, Fisichella)

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Again we look back at colors of the F1 past. After the 2006 team liveries, here is look at what the race drivers of 2006 were wearing:

Alonso, Fisichella - Renault

Raikkonen, Montoya, De La Rosa - McLaren Mercedes

M. Schumacher, Massa - Ferrari

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Here are 2007 helmets of some the F1 test drivers. Who knows, we may see some of these guys racing later on this season …

Winkelhock (Spyker), Zonta (Renault)

Vettel (BMW Sauber), Piquet Jr. (Renault

Valles (Spyker), Rossiter (Super Aguri)

Paffet (McLaren), Nakajima (Williams),

Montagny (Toyota), Glock (BMW Sauber)

Klien (Honda), Karthikeyan (Williams)

Fauzy (Spyker), Doornbos (Red Bull)

Ammermueller (Red Bull)

More to come …

Check also 2007 Race Driver Helmets

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New season, new helmets … Here are all 22 race drivers helmets. (For test drivers click here ).
Updated - included helmets of Winkelhock, Yamamoto, Nakajima and Vettel.

Alonso, Hamilton

Fisichella, Kovalainen

Massa, Raikkonen

Button, Barrichello

Heidfeld, Kubica

Trulli, R. Schumacher

Wurz, Rosberg

Coulthard, Webber

Albers, Sutil

Liuzzi (left side), Liuzzi (right side)

Sato, Davidson

Speed, Winkelhock

Yamamoto, Nakajima

Vettel

Pictures from crash.net, autosport.com, yahoo, hondaracingf1.com
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